triggered two dozen tornadoes. >> it just picked me up and fling me three times. chuck hagel could face tough questions during today's appearance before the senate armed services committee. >> president obama should choose someone else to lead the pentagon. you missed that point completely. >> senator, i think you missed -- >> let there be order. >> the gun control debate taking center stage on capitol hill in dramatic fashion. >> the time is now. you must act. the chase was extremely dangerous. >> what's he going to do? right through him, right through the train crossing. talk about serious air, windsurfers brave hard conditions in southwest ireland to face off in the red bull storm chase conversation. mascot versus cheerleader never ends well. >> six against five. >> look at this. oh, here we go. >> and all that matters. >> every single parent can identify with the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat

and on sunday night, we're going to experience both of those great emotions. who has it better than us? no-body! >> no-body! >> on "cbs this morning." >> nearly three in ten americans say god plays a role in the outcome of sporting events. >> of course god cares about football. he created a girlfriend for manti te'o out of nothing. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." we're in super bowl park at jackson square new orleans, our broadcast home for the next three days and we are thrilled to be in new orleans. >> it's a beautiful set and we have lots of news ahead in this broadcast. >> and a great game coming up on sunday. >> great game. we begin in alabama where a hostage drama has been going on

for more than 36 hours. >> a man took a child captive after shooting and killing a school bus driver and manuel bo or jorques is in midland, alabama. >> reporter: so far authorities are tight-lipped they've not released the name of the suspect or the child who is believed to be unharmed but is still a hostage. police cars blocked the dirt road leading to the site of an armed standoff now entering its third day. the suspect allegedly forced his way onto a school bus tuesday and confronted the driver. there were more than 20 children on board. the bus driver refused a request to turn over a child, any child. >> he started telling him he needed a kid because something about the law coming after him, and then he shot the bus driver. >> reporter: the bus driver died. the gunman grabbed a 5-year-old boy and dragged him away. police say the child is being

held in a bunker resembling a tornado shelter. negotiators have been able to get food and medicine to the child, who has special needs. people who live along this road say the suspect is a retired truck driver with a reputation. they say he allegedly has beaten a dog to death and threatened to shoot kids who trespass on his property. he was reportedly due in court this week on a weapons charge. >> very anti-social, very anti-government, hates everybody. >> reporter: ronda wilbur was one of several neighbors forced to evacuate the area. she's hoping for the child's safe release and something else. >> my granddaughter who just turned 7, when i have her visiting me this next weekend i don't have to worry about mean man. one way another he'll either be locked up or he'll be dead. >> reporter: police have not said what demands, if any, the

suspect has made. charlie and norah? >> manuel bojorquez, thanks. everyone stopped to listen to one prominent victim yesterday of gun violence. nancy cordes is on capitol hill where a senate committee called its first hearing on new gun laws. nancy good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah. no question former congresswoman gabby giffords was a star witness. her husband who is with her says she partially blind now and has lost her gift for speech but she still managed to deliver her most extensive remarks since the shooting two years ago. still struggling to walk and talk after a gunshot wound to the head former congresswoman gabby giffords had the room riveted as she urged congress to address gun violence. >> too many children are dying. too many children. we must do something.

>> reporter: on the other side the ceo of the national rifle association, wayne lapierre who argued new gun laws are unnecessary. >> they don't hit the elites they don't hit the criminal they hit the average, hard-working tax paying american. >> reporter: most republicans on the committee agreed. >> i have a hard time telling my constituents in texas that congress is looking at passing a whole raft of new laws when the laws we currently have on the books are so woefully unenforced. >> reporter: the hearing touched on many of the measures congress is considering including strengthening background checks for gun buyers limiting high-capacity magazines and banning assault weapons. the last will be a tough sell even for some democrats like judiciary committee chairman patrick leahy. >> americans have the right to self-defense to have guns in their homes to protect their families. no one can take away those rights or their guns. >> reporter: as the hearing was going on senators learned of a shooting in giffords' home state

of arizona. one dead two wounded in phoenix, and illinois senator dick durbin told the story of another victim. 16-year-old hidayah who marched in the inauguration parade last week. >> just a couple of days after the happiest day of her life she's gone. >> reporter: one thing this hearing revealed is there are some areas of bipartisan agreement particularly around the idea of expanding background checks to apply to sales made at gun shows. vice president biden will be here on the hill in a couple of hours meeting with senate

democrats and guns will probably be at the top of the agenda. charlie, norah, back to you. >> nancy cordes, thanks. the pacific northwest is waking up to rain and snow but in the south, a massive storm has killed two people and the system is causing trouble in the northeast, knocking out power to tens of thousands in new york city, this morning heavy runoff from rain is rushing down city streets. >> six tornadoes crushed homes and businesses, one man died when a tree fell on the shed where he took cover. the most destructive twister killed another man in adairsville, georgia, where we find terrell brown. good morning. >> reporter: charlie, norah, good morning to you. this is what's left of a store here in adairsville, much of the debris is from one of the sides of the building. that is the roof and mangled in this debris is hundreds of power lines, hundreds of yards as residents return today to see if they have anything left. >> that's a tshd buddy. >> reporter: late wednesday morning the tornado touched down in adairsville, 60 miles north of atlanta. it ripped homes to shreds.

>> i was so scared. it just picked me up and fling me three times. one man died when a tree fell on his home. >> there was no warning from the sirens, no wag. >> reporter: juanita carter dove into the bathtub to take cover as her house collapsed around her. >> i was glad my kids weren't in home, they were in school. >> reporter: they estimated the cloud as a quarter mile wide and touched down and stayed on the ground for a full two miles. >> this [ bleep ] on get back in here. >> reporter: overturned and tossed about vehicles and heavy tractor trailers were no match for the high winds, as many as 100 vehicles were flipped. that threw your truck about 250 feet there? >> evidently. wrapped it all in the power lines and i guess slammed it down. >> reporter: a state of emergency has been declared in the county that we're in this

morning, as well as another county a little to the north. more than 6,500 power customers across the state of georgia are still in the dark this morning. charlie, norah? >> terrell brown, thanks. a prominent u.s. senator is fighting for his reputation. new jersey's bob menendez is being forced to deny allegations of accepting free plane rides and engaging with prostitutes. this as the fbi scrutinizes one of his friends who has made big donations to his campaign. jan crawford is in washington. jan, good morning. >> good morning norah and charlie. these allegations really surfaced first back in november before the election and from the beginning, menendez has denied them. on the one hand they have the earmarks of an orchestrated smear campaign but the question is are they true? the raid on the office of menendez menendez menendez's friend who seems to be the center of all of this could be the signal the fbi is applying pressure to see whether the allegations have any merit. federal agents on wednesday

hauled away boxes of documents from the office of a south florida eye doctor a prominent democratic donor with ties to new jersey senator bob menendez. the fbi is refusing to say publicly why it's investigating dr. salomon melgen. melgen currentcally has an outstanding irs lien of $11.1 million for back taxes but it's his relationship with menendez that has become a focus. last month "the daily caller" accused menendez of accepting prostitutes at melgen's mansion in the dominican republic and using his private jet for transportation. at the time a spokesman for menendez said "he was not going to respond to a completely false acquisition" and he easily won a second term. this week assuming a more

prominent role in the senate foreign relations committee he was more forceful. in a statement the new jersey democrat called melgen "a friend and political support for many years and acknowledged he traveled on melgen's plane three occasions, all of which have been paid for and reported appropriately" but his denial of wrongdoing was cat garr kohl "any allegations of engaging with prostitutes are manufactured by a politically motivated right wing blog and are false." harry reid echoed the sentiment. >> anyone has to look at the source where this comes from. >> while menendez says he paid for the flights on the private jet he did so only recently, his office confirmed he reimbursed melgen more than $58,000 for two flights after complaints were made to the ethics committee. norah and charlie? >> january crawford thanks. president obama's nominee for defense secretary is on capitol hill right now facing his critics on the senate armed

services committee. former republican senator chuck hagel is the only witness at this morning's confirmation hearing. earlier we spoke to bob woodward associate editor of "the washington post" asking him if the hagel nomination is in good shape at this time. >> it looks like it is and you know we've got some questions to answer but what's interesting in the reports we've done on it is that there is a like-mindedness between obama and hagel about where the military should go when it should be used a sense of scaling back at the same time there's a hawkish side to it that you have to be ready to use the military but i think the mind meld between the president and hagel is the key factor here, and as you know the defense secretary is in effect the deputy commander in chief.

you look back we would not have had vietnam without secretary of defense mcnamara almost certainly we would not have had or in the way we had the iraq war without defense secretary rumsfeld, so this is a big deal. >> and bob, you write about that, that obama has found a soul mate on the issue of war. so with hagel as defense secretary, even though he served certainly during vietnam, a republican, what does it mean for american engagement in the world in the next four years? >> that it's going to be done in a much more careful way. clearly in my research on the first book i did on obama and talking with the president about the war in afghanistan he like hagel has an aversion to war. he'll go to war but in obama's famous nobel prize acceptance speech he made it very clear that war may be necessary but

it's always a manifestation of human folly. >> and the secretary of state, john kerry, has said they need to get their economic house in order as a first priority for national security. look at syria and look at iran. where does the secretary of defense nominee and the president stand on iran? >> well the policy is to prevent iran from getting the bomb that is the most difficult policy to execute. it's not a matter of containment. it's a matter of stopping it whether that's going to be effective, we're going to see, but as you both know the world is really dangerous now. there are a lot of powder kegs and hot spots and whether they can calibrate a policy that will send the message to potential enemies or adversaries that will use the military if necessary,

but at the same time not be in the hair trigger mode which some other presidents and secretaries of defense have been. >> thank you, bob. >> thank you bob. syria's ambassador to lebanon says syria has an option to retaliate after an attack deep inside the country. clarissa, good morning to you. >> good morning norah and charlie. there are few details as to exactly what happened yesterday. the syrian government has said that that israeli air strike hit a military research base about seven miles northwest of damascus. israeli officials are not saying anything, but a pentagon official tells cbs news the intended target or the target was believed to be a convoy that was carrying heavy weapons out of syria into lebanon to go to hezbollah, the shiite militant

group. now, obviously syria shares a border with israel. it has very serious concerns about the security situation inside syria, particularly because syria has a significant stock of chemical weapons. at this stage no one is expecting the syrians to launch a retaliatory attack but certainly this raises very real concerns about the possibility that syria's civil war is spilling across its borders. >> thank you clarissa ward. time to show you morning's headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" says it was an emotional affair parents of victims of the sandy hook school shooting were among those testifying, many in the room called for stricter gun control. "the tennesseean" says prostate cancer treatments can feel worse than the disease. research by vanderbilt university found men experienced widespread complications after undergoing surgery or radiation

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the zoo in california announced that its monkey has randomly picked the 49ers to win the super bowl. and not surprisingly its deer picked ray lewis and the ravens. the deer likes ray lewis. well, they have been known as the odd couple of american politics. mary matalin and her husband, democrat james carville are here with us, in the hometown of new orleans. a great place. we'll talk about their city and the big game and the political gamesmanship in washington on "cbs this morning." your local news is next. 49ers head coach jim harbaugh said this morning he does not think >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. good morning, everyone. 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated now on some bay area headlines. san francisco 49er head coach jim harbaugh saying this morning he does not think that

the quarterback chris culliver is a discriminating person. culliver apologized again for remarks in a radio interview yesterday. a car tracked down doughnuts on an oakland freeway said. the owner of the purple nissan says he wasn't driving, he had let someone else take it for a test drive. the owner since paid the it red. traffic and weather coming up.

good morning. it's hard to get around in the south bay because of a couple of different accidents. better news. in sunnyvale, finally just a few minutes ago all lanes back open. northbound 101 at fair oaks. but look at that backup. it extents all the way to san jose. new accident northbound 280 by 11th street so 101 and your alternate are both backed up.

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this is interesting. a new study conducted by the public religious institute says 27% of americans believe that god has a hand in determining which team wins. so you're praying for a new

kidney this weekend, sorry, god has the ravens. of course god cares about football. he created a girlfriend for manti te'o out of nothing. >> welcome back to our viewers in the west. this is "cbs this morning" from new orleans. we're here in super bowl park at jackson square. >> and jeff glor is at the superdome to show us how everyone from the teams to the fans are gearing up. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. energy here as well but it's earlier. there's still work to do. you can see behind me actually this is part of the halftime stage that was brought in yesterday in pieces. has not been put together yet, but that will be assembled before sunday. san francisco 49ers actually had to move yesterday for their practice to a different indoor facility nearby. that was because of high winds in the new orleans area. the baltimore ravens did get a walk through of the superdome yesterday, but the biggest attention getter yesterday was

not the players but actually the lombardi trophy which got walked through the convention center by former saints running back deuce mcallister. the trophy got the red carpet treatment there. it will stay there until it's awarded to the winner of this game on sunday night. and guys, we also got word yesterday that 26 students from sandy hook elementary school will perform "america the beautiful" before the game on sunday night. that should be an emotional and extraordinary moment before the game. >> all right. quite extraordinary. jeff thanks. you know james carville and mary mattalin for their politics by they're cochairs of the super bowl committee. >> great to be here. for anyone who had any doubt about why you moved back to new orleans all you have to do is come to new orleans. >> you guys have had some

incredible careers. but how did you get a gig co-hosting the super bowl? >> god is good. what can i say? god is good. >> yeah. god works in mysterious ways. >> it's a great job. it's like being the queen of the netherlands. you get to go everywhere. you don't have a lot of power, but you cut a lot of ribbons and give a lot of talk. >> what does it mean for the state? >> you know, charlie that's a good question. i think we honestly won't know until monday but it could mean some very good things. i can feel -- the emotion is starting to build up. the sense of pride is really starting to build up. i hope when this is over that we look back and say, you know we did a big thing and we did it right. that's what we're hoping for. >> and what's already happened the legacy of pulling it together we discovered that we have vibrant communities, and all sorts of applications for everybody.

we have a hospitality industry. we're doing this in between the mardi gras. so we have a giant event, a business. so we're doing super service charity. we're rescuing five of the 200 parks here. it's been nine years since hurricane katrina. how is new orleans doing? >> you know, how we doing? well, the fastest growing city in america who has the most improved school system in america. we're the number one city in america for the food. you know, i can go on. but we're doing a lot better and thanks to events like this. >> let me turn to how new orleans feel about one person roger goodell and how they'll welcome him. >> we did welcome him with open arms. we have had dinner with him last night. you know, roger is a big part of why the saints are here. a big part of why the super bowl

is here. >> all that is behind you. >> let me put it this way, somebody comes into your house you treat them right. roger goodell is coming into our house. he will be treated right. and if he's not, that person is not going to be a very popular person. we're delighted to have him here. you know? but we put -- >> yeah, our house. >> can we talk politics kind of for a moment. you guys were long-time fixtures on cnn and you have left cnn. what's next? >> well, we might -- >> why did you leave cnn? >> cnn said they wanted contributors to be there on set. >> it makes sense. >> it makes total sense but it's a strategy we can't fulfill living in new orleans. >> also in politics there's the notion that the secretary of

state is now going to take some time to write a memoir. james, you're close to the clintons. tell me what she might be thinking about as she leaves the hurley and burly of politics and being a traveling diplomat. >> i have a hard enough time to thinking about what my own wife is thinking about let alone the secretary of state. i would imagine she is -- she was two years running for president which is really hard. they tell me the secretary of state it's really hard. >> you think so? >> i'm not saying i think so. i hope she does. >> there's the governor of louisiana, is he a real potential republican candidate? >> well, mary was talking about him being in the class last week. >> we have a robust lineup for next go around and we have smart

thinkers, new thinkers. new generation of thinkers. he leads the pack. >> no, he doesn't lead the pack. i don't talk political talk. no political speak anymore. but he's in the top tier. >> a lot of -- i took an informal poll. and some conservatives overwhelm overwhelming thought he would be a good candidate. >> all right. >> we'll see. >> james carville mary matalin, great to see you both. you look incredible. >> what a back drop. >> tell our story. there's a lot of behind the scenes drama in this year's super bowl. we we'll look at that with james brown. and we'll look at san francisco and baltimore. super bowl xlvii is one of the few things that the cities have in common. that's tomorrow on "cbs this morning."

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we're heading into super bowl xlvii. plenty of excitement and at least one controversy. earlier this morning we talked about that with james brown, host of the "nfl today" on cbs sports. >> good to see you and charlie. >> so between charlie and i, i have become the expert on the deer antler velvet. >> you're the expert, i love it. >> i won't get near it. >> well, i think it at's a huge story because it is really about igf-1 which is an insulin growth hormone. vijay singh has talked about it from the pga. a-rod that's what he is accused of using and ray lewis now and he's denied it. ask is it a big controversy?

>> if there's a smoking gun and the players know it's a banned substance, yes. but short of that media day will magnify any and everything right now. i don't know how big a deal and ray certainly understands what this could do to his legacy if true. >> also, he's also aware of what it could do if it distracts him from the game. so let me go to the game itself. what is happening in the news about the two teams and leading up to the big game on sunday? >> you know, typically, at super bowls when you find the media trying to parse every word something to knock the teams off stride, that's what will happen. i don't think that's any chance that will happen with either of these teams. they are truly reflections of their coaches. they're laser focused on this. believe me anything and everything you have heard won't affect the play on the field at all. >> there's controversy about chris culver, the 49ers making some comments that some viewed as anti-gay.

he has apologized for that. what do you make of that? >> in the context of the media looking for things. insensitive, for sure. you don't tolerate and nor should you, but it won't have any adverse impact on the team at all. and he's apologized. >> and dan marino is in the news today. >> a very close friend. it's a family matter. he and his wife, it's between he and them. i pray not only for the family but all involved. >> so jb, excited about the game sunday? >> i am. and the game is a thing. great story lines going into it it ought to be a good game. >> let me tell you quickly, we met the harbaughs last night, the mother and father and john was there too. >> and jim may be more

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>> you of course are the associate dean of science at the university of alabama at birmingham. let's talk about the myths. the first one that may surprise a lot of people sex doesn't really burn calories. really? >> well, it does burn some calories but not as many as people might like to believe it does. if you look at popular diet and nutrition websites they say a bout of sex burns roughly 150 to 300 calories per 30 to 60 minutes. the reality is that the average bout of sex lasts six minutes and bernurns about 21 calories. >> if you mention burning calories and exercise, it seems it always comes down to eat less, exercise more. >> that's absolutely right. what it comes down to is energy which is coming from eating or

things but -- but how can we reverse that. it's partly behavioral. and partly physiological. biochemical. but how we get people to expend more energy. >> small sustained changes in how many calories we take in are going to accumulate to produce large weight gain. why is that a myth? >> what turns out is that people have been previously projected that the things would accumulate indefinitely. for example, one of us started walking 30 minutes a day after dinner perhaps. that would expend 100 calories a day. over 35 days 3,500 calories. one might think that would burn a pound of fat. well, long enough you realize in 20 years we'll have each lost 100 pounds which is unrealistic. because as you get smaller, your body takes less energy to move you through space and to pump blood through the body and so

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good morning to you. it's 8:00. welcome back to cbs "this morning" from super bowl park at

jackson square in new orleans. by, what a city. and who better to have with us than drew brees. more than a quarterback. he is a hero here. plus, only on cbs "this morning" go behind the scenes of the new super bowl ad starring dwayne "the rock" johnson. first, here's a look at today's eye-opener at 8:00. police have not released the name of the suspect or the child who is believed to be unharmed. >> in alabama, a hostage drama unfolding more than 36 hours. >> police are negotiating with a man holding a 5-year-old boy in an underground shelter. >> this is the kind of thing you can see for hundreds of yards out here as residents returned today to see if they have anything left. >> and a rain and wind storm in the south killed two people and left heavy damage and the storm caused new troubling in the northeast overnight. >> a noisy debate over gun control turn pd quiet a few minutes yesterday, because everyone stopped to listen to one prominent victim of gun

violence. >> we must do something. >> president obama's nominee for secretary facing capitol hill critics. is the hagel nomination in trouble? >> we have questions to answer. >> what about the super bowl? >> god is good. god is good. >> you can see behind me this is a part of the halftime stage brought in yesterday in pieces not put together yet. >> tweev charlie and i i became a xpertd on deer velvet. >> you're the expert? >> yes. >> no doubt why you guys moved back to new orleans, all you have to do is come to new orleans. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. a neighborhood under virtual lockdown more than 36 hours because of a hostage drama. police are negotiating with a man holding a 5-year-old boy in

an underground bunker. they say he kidnapped the child from a school bus tuesday after killing the driver who tried to stop him. the debate over tougher gun laws came to newtown, connecticut last night in a jam-packed public hearing. parents of the sandy hook shooting victims asked state lawmakers to take action. >> six weeks ago today we held the funeral for our 6-year-old son. i remember looking at him in his casket and holding his hand. no parent should hold this memory of their child. make the time make this the time, that change happens by turning this tragedy into the moment of transformation that

benefits us all. >> my name is susan aarons, and my daughter was a student in victoria soto's first grade class. the fact my daughter survived and others didn't haunts me. so i'm asking you that if you move forward and represent our state and our families in this town, you remember 26, that that day. >> every story marks want to cry. >> every story. >> meanwhile, 26 students from sandy hook elementary will perform at the super bowl pregame show on sunday, which that will be a special moment. >> a very special moment. >> as you flare those parents from newtown. >> we're in new orleans as you know, because it's super bowl time in new orleans. they tell me, never said no to a party. a security guard told me just this morning. f1 o as mardi gras it turned into a

real juggling act. jeff glor has that part of the story. good morning to you. >> reporter: gayle, good morning, too. this might be the biggest tourist event new orleans has ever seen. the combination of the super bowl and mardi gras season with the super bowl sandwiched in the >> carnival's of the whole season starts january 6th. an epiphany. it's french. complicated, but we enjoy it. >> reporter: this year mardi gras falls on february 12th, but the typical 12-day parade season leading up to it was expanded to make room for the super bowl. 12 parades were moved. not an ideal situation for some but a change hardy says had to be made. would it have been possible toll do mardi gras the season, without spliting it up?

>> no. absolutely not. no in downtown new orleans. you just can't fit 20 ounces of water in a 16 cup. >> reporter: during the convenient which some are calling super gras the city anticipates over half a million tourists. hardy says all 35,000 hotel rooms are sold out. but the locals are offering more than just hospitality. take this. a 365-foot-long float that cost $1.5 million to build, and creators say it is the biggest float in the world. >> the initial plan was to not do this float for a few more year es. you moved up the schedule because of the super bowl? >> that was the thought, yeah. you know the eyes of the world were going to be on new orleans. >> reporter: barry kern and his family have been building floats for a century. for pa trades all oevg the globe. but the one thing making for mardi gras in new orleans are unique. >> reporter: who pays for all this? >> by the gods who buy the

floats. >> reporter: no corporate responsiblers in mardi gras? >> that's the thing that makes us different from anywhere else in the world. you've never going to see the name of any -- any brand. we do it for ourselves. we're happy to have you come and visit, but we'd be doing it anyway. >> reporter: this year says hardy, the show won't just go on. it will be bigger than ever. >> new orleans! >> more than 1,000 floats and 50 parades. it makes no economic sense why people would spend money to wear a mask and give gifts to stranger, but that's what we do. we do it every year. >> reporter: other parades in our parish just not in new orleans. they resume after the super bowl. more than happy to take you on a guided tour, if you want to stick around. >> we'll be there. the new orleans mayor, good morning. >> good morning. >> how is this super bowl for lots of reasons different from all the others?

>> well -- >> in new orleans. >> our teng one. we're really proud of that. the spoot-of-footprint is much much bigger. we did the firstone post-911. this gives us an opportunity to show the rest of the world how incredible the people of new orleans are and thank them for everything they did to help us stand back up. you have 70,000 people in the hospitality industry. putting it in the middle of mardi gras, the largest freak show on earth. my team's handling it well and i'm proud of everybody. >> do you think the story of the super bowl, the story of the super bowl is bigger than the city of new orleans? isn't it? >> the city of new orleans is bigger than the story of the super bowl. that's what you meant to say. right, gayle? >> exactly what i meant to say. >> thank you. the super bowl is really just an important part of how a city rallied with a football team and with the community. the communal space we gather. we got to see each other, the

faithful game when we beat atlanta and have a chance to win again. in the past seven years you've seen the people of new orleanss in a much more, doing heroic thing to get the city stood back up. you can't put this on if you're not clicking on our four krillcylinders. >> guards from katrina still and you have to know people need 0 know the story. >> no question. katrina and rita did not cause all of new orleans problems like every american city we struggled with infrastructure health care education. one of the things that's happened is the people of new orleans really stoppeded bleed that started a long time ago, transformed the city into moving in the right direction. it would be unfair to say that the city's completely back. we have areas in in the city still struggling but you will find out building the northeast, some places come back faster than others. some places hurt before stay hurt longer.

it really is going to be a matter of national policy getting into urban areas reinvest in schools and education and build the kbaft so america can be great again. the people of new orleans have shown the nation a light at the end of the tunnel and how to get there. >> mayor, the economic impact for your city is going to be hundreds of millions of dollars. and yet many of the residents and business ownser here have not exactly rolled out the red mat for the nfl commissioner roger goodell. still hard feels. >> sure there are. >> one restaurant had his face on a dart board. >> yes. >> why is that jie mean we do know why it is but is that fair? >> let me say this. we take the saints seriously down here and what happened last year was very hurtful to the saints' fans. people bleed black and gold and they took offense to that. i've tried to tell them, separate what happens on the field with the larger economic impact. roger goodell has been great to the city. one of the reasons the saints were able to stay out there

after katrina, one of it's reasons why the super bowl is here. there's a bright line between what happened last season and a good demarcation. we're going forward. >> we're happy to be here. >> thank you. >> try not to gain ten pounds in twol days. >> thank you very much. he has been called america's most loved quarterback. of course, we're talking about drew brees.

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. for the first time the "got milk" campaign is coming to the super bowl with some muscle. ben tracy has that story you'll only see on "cbs this morning." >> reporter: it looks like a scene from major hollywood movie. big-time action star big budget set, and even big scary circus animals. >> just a lion. >> keep going. >> reporter: yet this is not a two-hour big screen action film. it's a 30-second commercial for milk. >> we don't think of it as a 30-second tv spot. it's a small film and in this case it's a big small film.

we've got one of the biggest stars out there, most iconic brands out there, and we've got the biggest venue, the super bowl. >> reporter: they let us on the set in long beach, california as they filmed their top secret super bowl ad. this is also the first commercial that dwayne johnson aka "the rock" has ever done. first off, what do we call you? >> sir. >> sir. since you're in your pajamas,ite very formal. >> since you point out my pajamas. wow, i thought -- >> reporter: that's why he's selling the idea that milk protein is the best kwa to start the day. the audience an estimated 110 million people watching the super bowl on sunday. >> if you're going do a commercial you may as well go big, have impact jump head first right into the fire.

>> reporter: over the past 17 years the milk mustache has become iconic yet this is the first time "got milk" has got a super bowl ad. milk won't say how much it's spending how much it's spending to create the odd but just to air it costs about $3.8 million, an average of 60 ads are expected to run during the game all hoping to avoid being named losers the next day. film and tv director peter burke is calling the shots on the milk set. >> reporter: is there more pressure knowing it's a super bowl adverb sus a regular tv ad? >> yeah. for the most part the kind of people that put undue and intense pressure on themselves for everything. >> reporter: they spent an entire month creating an an animated version. then they head backed to new york. they had just three weeks to

create the special effects that would have been too expensive to film on location. >> we're investing animals that didn't exist, creating >> reporter: it was hard to tell what the spot was actually about while watching on the set. >> here's the secret. i know the cameras aren't on. without giving the commercial away. we're talking about worldwide destruction. this is a massive action film all rolled up in an amazing super bowl commercial. >> reporter: and they let us show you a sneak preview of their big ad. >> we're out of milk. >> are you kidding me? ♪ >> mister? >> what? >> there. >> reporter: of course these folks are pushing a product and would not let us leave without taking something with us. >> i have a gift for you. it's coming in right now. in 3, 2 --

>> reporter: i'm glad this wasn't staged. >> it was not at all. who is this? i don't know. >> reporter: milk for me? wow. thank you. >> and remember something, it does a body good. >> reporter: is this skim or 2%? >> don't you worry. you just drink it. >> reporter: ben tracy, long beach, california. >> cheers. >> to see the full 30-second commercial, logon to cbsthismorning.com. many think drew brees is a thing in more than one way. he joins us here on "cbs this morning." save up to $500 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. keep more presidents in your wallet. sleep train's presidents' day sale is on now.

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a san jo >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. good morning, everyone. 8:25. i'm frank mallicoat with your cbs 5 news headlines on this thursday. san jose family is on edge after being targeted twice this week by vandals.

on monday, someone threw yellow paint on their car and slashed their tires. the second night they doused the front door with gas and set it on fire. san jose police want information if you have any. cbs 5 tracked down one of the cars doing doughnuts on the oakland freeway. the owner of the purple nissan says he wasn't driving at the time. he said he had let someone take his car out for a test drive. a young 49ers fan isn't letting the hospital stay get in his way of a big super bowl party. a 7-year-old jacob murphy, he is a heart patient at the packard children's hospital in palo alto. he turn his room into the ultimate fan cave. kaepernicking there. the second grader is hosting a super bowl bash for his family. traffic and weather coming up.

the bay a mess now. we have seen numerous different fender-benders. earlier overnight traffic alert in sunnyvale involving a big rig. 101, 280 through downtown and the guadalupe parkway all jammed up including stretches of highway 92 along the peninsula. quick check of the bay bridge, where it looks like it's stacked up to the foot of the maze. the metering lights are on. typical commute. that is traffic, for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right. some unusual weather around the bay area. above-normal temperatures expected as we head into the afternoon. lots of sunshine out there in most spots right now. looking toward mount diablo,

hazy out there, as well. the temperatures still chilly in the valleys. 30s inland. some 40s elsewhere. but by the afternoon, we're looking at one of the most spectacular days up to 68 in oakland today, 67 sunny in redwood city, 67 degrees in santa rosa. and about 63 degrees in san francisco. that ridge of high pressure is sticking around right through tomorrow lots of sunshine. a few more clouds but very nice and dry throughout the weekend. then we cool off and those clouds begin to thicken up toward the middle of next week.

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morning" at super bowl park in jackson square in new orleans. coming up this half houring there is nothing like a po boy. we take you through the history of this classic cuisine. >> plus julie chen and sharon osborne are here. we'll take a look at the food and the halftime show featuring beyonce. >> first it's time to show you this morning's headlines. the "los angeles times" says the last of the andrews sisters died yesterday. patty seen in the middle was the group's lead singer. patty andrews was 94. "the wall street journal" says "argo" is a hit in iran. boot legers call it their best-selling years selling more than 100,000 copies. >> it's interesting. "the new york times" says there are super bowl tickets available through licensed brokers. it's their biggest event of the year. brokers are buying as many

tickets as they can to sell at a profit. one broker bought a super bowl ticket for $1,200 and then resold it for 1$1,800. three years ago saints' drew brees was the mvp of super bowl xliv. this year he'll be watching from the stands and working as a spokesperson for tide. good morning. >> good morning. >> we want you to size up the game. two quarterbacks are going up against each other. >> colin kaepernick. both teams -- i guess it's been a while. certainly they both deserve to be there. they travelled a tough road to get there. they traveled to arrive here. they're both playing as well as you can play right now so they certainly both deserve to be here. >> do you have any advice? you know what it's like you now how they're feeling as you're sitting here. >> enjoy the moment. obviously there's a lot of

potential distractions. you come to the super bowl host city for the week. i guess you try to embrace it. you embrace the media day and embrace everything there is about the game and understand how exciting a time it is. in the end you want to narrow down your focus and play the best game you can. >> i wonder about the state of your sport the state of the nfl. probably know one has been more critical of roger goodell than you. you said recently nobody trusts him, trusts him, of goodell. what's your main concern? >> well obviously that was in regard to the bounty allegations and accusations which we as an organization certainly as a team felt were very unfair and lacked due process and a fair process. while we disagree all that is behind us now and we're really focused the 2013 season. we've got our head coach sean payton back. we're ready to move on. >> there were a number of player on media day who talked about

the future of nfl, hits concussions. and some who said i don't know if i'd have my own son play. >> those are major concerns. player health and safety should be priority number one and it has been for the association for a long time. you know certainly the head and neck injuries i think is the thing that's most concerning. that's why the return to play protocols need to continue to be looked at in regards to when a guy does suffer a concussion or a neck injury. you make sure they're ready to come back on the field before they do. and as guys leave this game and retired players who have been away for a long time you see suffering with some of these long-term concussion issues we need to make sure these guys are being taken care of. >> let's talk about the hoopla of the super bowl. when you won there was a sense that new orleanses with a team of destiny that year. does it make a difference? does the emotion go to the field? there's a lot of talk about the ravens this year for a lot of

reasons. >> yeah. it's -- i'd say the toughest part about this game is obviously you understand the magnitude of it you know. so when do you stuff on the field, emotions are running as high is that possibly can and it takes a little while to calm yourself, gain your poise, and go out planld the game and see that it's like any other game. but obviously when you when this game it can do some pretty magical things. really that super bowl victory with the culmination of four years with the resurgence post-katrina, watching the city and the team and the organization come together and just what that's meant for everyone around here has been incredible. >> who are you rooting for and why? speak into the microphone, drew brees. >> i'm not rooting -- >> you can tell us. >> it's -- what you find is i'm a fan of football. i love the game. even when we're not playing during the yearing eemg watching the prime time games. i'm watching guys i know around

the league. you're fans of certain guys and maybe coaches you've been with the past so you root for a lot of people to succeed. i love watching great football. this is going to be great football. you're talking two dominant defenses and two explosive offenses. something's got to give and we'll see where it does, but this could go either way. we'll see. >> you know what i love watching? the adorable commercials with your son. i love those commercials, drew. would you be okay if they wanted to play? >> absolutely. i think at a certain age. i think that's what -- that's what research is trying to determine. when do you want to expose them to any physical sport especially football. maybe it's not until 13 that you'd want to. there's flal football. there's seven on seven, plenty of you know other avenues that

you can go. i didn't play tackle football until i was 14 years old. wi us a freshman in high school. so that's certainly something to be considered. >> you said you had to put it behind you. when that kick-off comes, will you say to yourself at all except for the bounty penalty, we might have been here? >> no. i'm never going to make excuses. we didn't have a chance, that's why we're not here period. i don't want to give -- make any excuses for our season. i'm proud -- i'm proud of the way we battled this season. the things that hurt me the most and the most disappointing is our record is not indicative of the effort of our team of the players, of the coaching staff. they did a fobl job under circumstances that, you know are hard to describe. but i'm really proud of our one of football's good guys for nothing. please stay with us for the next segment. >> when woe come back new orleans is known for many things especially riverboats and jazz.

but especially the food.& the real star may be that po boar. we sent mo rocca to check it out. >> everybody has to have their po boy sandwich in new orleans. no matter what joint they go to they've got to have it. >> reporter: the po boy, the statement of new orleans cuisine. a foot-long sandwich traditionally stuffed with gulf fried shrimp or roast beef or if you're lucky enough to get to parkway bakery gist tin kennedy will combine the two in a surf and turf po boy. if i were standing across the room and saw these over here i would be thinking these were submarine sandwiches. what would i be getting wrong? >> submarine sandwich. first that's an insult. this is a po boy. >> the po boy has a rich

history. back in 1929 during the strike by streetcar workers, bakers and brothers, clovis and benjamin martin began feeding the strikers for free. simple in the past gravy and meat scraps on bread. expensive but oh so interesting. the name was dubbed poor boys. >> we don't like to work too hard. it's a little hard work to say the whole thing so we slang it po boy. >> reporter: what makes it a po boy. >> it's all about the bread. >> reporter: the 28-inch loevs come only from local bakers. flakey and hard on the outside and like a pill yeo on the inside. the secret ingredient is new

orleans' humidity. >> it's hard to get consistency because of the humidity. >> reporter: he should know. they still jostle for bar stools. how many stars have critics awarded this place? who cares. it's already got three super bowl rings. quarterbacks ee lay and peyton manning were practically raised on them. >> each of them would sit down and eat two of these. >> reporter: six pieces like that, each of them. >> yeah. >> reporter: mere mortals should probably stick to just one, but don't forget the barq's root beer. it's a must. don't worry. it comes in diet because that will really cut down on diets. the po boy isn't for meatless. if your fingers aren't sticky and your elbows you're not eating it directly. our ray show found that eating

to napkin ratio is 1:1. these are new school po boys. >> it seems like it draws influence from all around. >> reporter: cam boudreau and his fianceee aniancee are classic trained chefs. perhaps you prefer a vegan po boy. yes, they exist here. for a sandwich that was developed for poor striking transit workers, your product sounds pretty high end. >> yeah, i would say that the techniques and the ingredients are high end, but the delivery is definitely very new orleans. >> reporter: really you can put anything in it and serve it anywhere because in this town a po boy will always be a po boy. >> it's a way of life. it's like going to church walking a dog.

the life blood of nooeps. i'm glad to be part of it. >> reporter: so am i. in front of us we have a whole cattle cade of po boys. shrimp roast beef catfish. surf and turf. charlie has potatoes and graev and i have alligator sausage. >> drew, does a professional athlete's diet include po boys? >> occasionally. there's too many good ones. >> eli and peyton manning were prak lickty raised on them here. >> yo r you saying if your eat po boys you will become a super bowl champion. >> and if it's in five years, i'll be playing because i in tend to eat a lot of them. >> i don't know why everybody in town doesn't weigh 300 pounds. the food is so good. thank you. this week the lady of the talk are here.

the hit cbs show called "the talk" is based in new orleans this week too. co-hosts julie chen and sharon osborne will tell us what they were out to do. >> you weren't in the streets raising your top to get bead did you? that's the tradition. >> all i've done since i arrived in new orleans is eat and drink and party. there's something about this town that brings it out in everyone. >> it's law here, and she knows how to party, we were all out to dinner last night. three of you were good, left early, got some rest. >> sharon, what did you do? >> you left before i hit the floor. i was on the floor. >> she literally did. that i didn't get a video of but

i do have some other interesting video that we might show in our video today. >> no you didn't. >> i'd show you first with your approval. >> i can't imagine sharon would say no. i can't imagine whatever it is. >> we still have these po' boys here, so please feel free to take them back if you're looking for breakfast. julie, you're an adventurous eater. tell us what are some of the treats. >> i've had turkey neck fried alligator. i didn't try the frogs legs yet. >> but you tried turkey neck and alligator and not frogs legs. >> no because the way they had it battered it was like -- two dangly, you know. they chop it up. >> it looked too chewy. >> how about deer antlers? >> boiled. >> so at halftime show beyonce, have you guys been talking about whether beyonce or what are the expectations? >> yes, we have been talking

about that. >> i think that she's under such huge pressure to deliver, and this woman just wants to entertain and everybody's looking at her under a microscope right now and it's like leave her aileen. what do you think? she's under so much pressure to deliver. >> sharon as someone who manages musicians, ozzy osbourne for one, you know what it's like to perform in a big venue. do you think this has been much ado about nothing against her? >> absolutely. why yooz her as an example. where do you want to go down the list? especially when you play in outside venues or large venues, you have the time delay anyway and when you perform outside, the wind you're up against all the elements so it's like give her a break. >> and also i mean as far as the type of show she puts on where there's dancing, i mean

you're out of breath. she -- at the super bowl halftime show i would think anyone doing that type of show would have to lip synch. now she probably can't because of this riddickiculous story, i don't know. >> i wouldn't want to be her. the pressure the expectation is so much. >> something tells me she's going to be ready. >> he she's not going to disappoint. >> we love a comeback. >> who's going to be on your show? >> mr. brees is co-hosting the talk with the ladies tomorrow. today we have vanessa williams we've got jamie dane cooking. >> there it is right there. >> they're our neighbors. >> don't you like taking the show on the road? >> i love it because it's like

you get to feel the big culture, different cultures. and when they joke about southern hospitality, my goodness, i had no idea. we feel so comfortable here. you feel special. >> was only half kidding about the beads, sharon but i heard you got some and i heard the only way you get it is lifting up your top. >> but i'd do it anyway. i'd do it without the beads. >> julie chen and sharon osborne, thank you so much. you can see the talk all this week from new orleans at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 1:00 p.m. central and pacific here on cbs. and we'll show you which super bowl star will be with us tomorrow. that's next on "cbs this morning."

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♪ that is new orleans native winton marcellus. you can see more of that by going to our website, cbsthismorning.com. eli manning is still the reigning super bowl champion quarterback, at least until sunday. so tomorrow the giants star and new orleans native will be here in super bowl park at jackson square on "cbs this morning." >> that does it for us. up next, your local news.

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good morning. it's slow going on 280 southbound through millbrae all the way down to woodside. they just cleared this accident out of lanes.

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